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February 27, 1967 Table Of Contents

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Booktalk

BOOKTALK

A bureaucratic list of animals doomed to disappear makes compelling reading

By Robert Boyle

Dark Filly

The Day of the Dark Filly

There were only two likely candidates for Sports Day Queen, but the vagaries of high-school politics caused an upset

By Bill Mackay

On The Tee

ON THE TEE: AN ERROR AND A FUMBLE

A big pro tournament highlights the golf week, only this time the pros aren't golfers, and the scramble for the $30,000 is truly a scramble

By Dan Jenkins

Tiger In The Ivy

TIGER IN THE HOUSE OF IVY

Esteemed for two centuries in the academic community, Princeton has become a power in basketball, not only in its own league but nationwide. Credit an ex-pro called Butch who smokes too many cigars

By Joe Jares

The Classicist

THE CLASSICIST FROM PEKIN

Frank Ervin, the man who won the 1966 Hambletonian with Kerry Way (below) and tutored the remarkable Bret Hanover through three years of excellence, looks back fondly on his half a century of harness racing

By William Leggett

Daytona 500

TAILGATING AT 3 MILES A MINUTE

People

PEOPLE

Design For Sport

TWO REBELS WITH A LOVELY CAUSE

Moonhole, the house that Tom and Gladys Johnston live in on the remote Caribbean island of Bequia, is built to look out through glassless windows on a Swiss Family Robinson kind of world

By Coles Phinizy

Track

A joyous night for a pixie

Gerry Lindgren looks like an elf but he runs like a giant, as he proved last weekend when he trounced an honored idol, Australia's Ron Clarke

By Gwilym S. Brown

Bridge

Schenken just rolls along

By Charles Goren

The Sporting Life

The Sporting Life at Sea

The pianist played 'Camptown Races,' and our hero took a beating for $6 in the shipboard pari-mutuels. But somehow he also won a few prizes

By Jack Olsen

For The Record

A roundup of the sports information of the week

Basketball's Week

Basketball's Week

By Mervin Hyman

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER

Departments

LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER

By Garry Valk

SCORECARD

CREDITS

FACES IN THE CROWD